PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY ELECTION (BASIC TRADITIONAL PROVISIONS) DECREE 1992
Section 23: Persons to be deemed guilty of bribery.
(1) The following persons shall be deemed guilty of bribery-
(a) a person who, directly or indirectly by himself or by any other person on his behalf, gives, lends or agrees to give or lend or offers promises or promises to procure or to endeavour to procure, any money or valuable consideration to or for any voter or to or for any person on behalf of any voter or to or for any other person in order to induce any voter to vote or to refrain from voting or corruptly does any such act aforesaid on account of such voter having voted or refrained from voting or corruptly does any such act as aforesaid on account of such voter having voted or refrained from voting, at a primary election;
(b) a person who directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person on his behalf corruptly gives or procures or promises to procure or to endeavour to procure any office, place, employment to or for a vote or to or for any person in order to induce such voter to vote or refrain from voting or corruptly does any such act as aforesaid on account of any voter having voted or in order to induce the voter to vote or refrain from voting or corruptly does any such act as aforesaid on account of a voter having voted or refrained from voting, at primary election;
(c) a person who directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person on his behalf makes any gift, loan, offer, promise, procurement or agreement to or for any person or community in order to induce such person or community to procure or to endeavour to procure, the return of a person as a Presidential candidate or the vote of a voter, at primary election;
(d) a person who, upon or in consequence of the gift, loan, offer, promise, procurement or agreement, procures, or engages or promises or endeavours to procure the return of any person as a Presidential candidate or the vote of any voter, at a primary election.
(e) a person who advances or pays or causes to be advanced or paid any money to or for the use of any person, with the intent that such money or any part thereof, shall be expended in bribery at a primary election or who knowingly pays, or causes to be paid, any money to any person, in discharge or repayment of any money wholly or in part expended in bribery, at a primary election ;
(f) a voter who, before or during a pimary election, directly or indirectly by himself or by any other person on his b.ehalf, receives, agrees or contracts for any maner, gift, loan or valuable consideration, office, place or employment, for hlmself or for any other person, for voting or agreeing to vote or for refraining from voting at a primary election;
(g) a person who, after a primary election, directly or indirectly, by himself of by any other person on his behalf, receives any money or valuable consideration on account of any person having voted or refrained from voting or having induced any other person to vote or refrain from voting at a pnmary election.
(2) The provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall not extend or be construed to extend to any money paid or agreed to be paid for or on account of any legal expenses bona fide incurred at or concerning a primary election.
Cite this section
Section 23, PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY ELECTION (BASIC TRADITIONAL PROVISIONS) DECREE 1992 (1992).
https://repo.podus.ai/laws/presidential-primary-election-basic-traditional-provisions-decree-1992/section/23/